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NASA plans to give the moon its own moon
VIDEO Mar 26, 2015Robotic grapples will be used to place a boulder from a large asteroid in to orbit around the moon.
Dawn probe arrives in orbit around Ceres
Mar 7, 2015The spacecraft is now set to spend the next 16 months studying the largest object in the asteroid belt.
Tiny moon discovered around giant asteroid
Jan 27, 2015The asteroid known as 2004 BL86 flew past the Earth this week at a distance of 1.2 million kilometers.
Evidence of flowing water found on Vesta
Jan 26, 2015Scientists have discovered indications that liquid water was once present on the asteroid's surface.
Asteroid firestorm didn't kill the dinosaurs
Jan 24, 2015Scientists believe that a long winter, not an inferno, was most likely to blame for their extinction.
Nukes could be used to destroy asteroids
Dec 22, 2014The ultimate weapons of mass destruction could one day save us from complete annihilation.
New mountain-sized asteroid discovered
Dec 10, 2014A Russian scientist has identified a huge asteroid that crosses the Earth's orbit every three years.
Scientists fear risk from smaller asteroids
Dec 4, 2014An asteroid just 164ft across is still large enough to cause widespread devastation were it to hit us.
New 'moon' discovered orbiting the Earth
Oct 6, 2014Astronomers have identified an asteroid with an orbit so stable that it is almost like a second moon.
US to keep nukes to use against asteroids
Oct 6, 2014The United States is keeping some of its nuclear warheads in case of an apocalyptic asteroid threat.
Meteorite falls near Nicaraguan capital
Sep 9, 2014A small space rock left a sizeable crater near Managua's international airport on Saturday night.
Scientists tackle 'Earth-killer' asteroid
Aug 16, 2014A huge fast-moving space rock has the potential to bring about the apocalypse in the year 2880.
'Missing link' asteroid fragment discovered
Jul 3, 2014A meteor shower 470 million years ago is thought to have initiated an explosion of life on Earth.
Earth struck by big asteroids 'all the time'
Apr 20, 2014Three former NASA astronauts are set to reveal some unsettling data on how vulnerable our planet is.
NASA begins building asteroid spacecraft
Apr 10, 2014The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will visit a nearby asteroid, obtain samples and then return them to Earth.
Asteroid with ring system discovered
Mar 28, 2014A 250km-wide rock known as Chariklo is the smallest known object to feature a ring system.
Earth sometimes hit by two asteroids at once
Mar 19, 2014Scientists have discovered a double-impact site in Sweden thought to be the result of a binary asteroid.
Did dark matter wipe out the dinosaurs ?
Mar 11, 2014Could a disc of dark matter on the galactic plane have triggered an apocalyptic asteroid impact ?
Double near-miss as two asteroids pass Earth
Mar 7, 2014Over the last couple of days two large recently discovered asteroids have passed close to our planet.
Near-Earth asteroid 'Moby Dick' goes missing
Feb 19, 2014A sizable asteroid measuring 270m across that was due to pass by the Earth seems to have disappeared.
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